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The Sense of an Ending

ByFrank Kermode

1967 • 8 Readers • 224 pages

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford

ByPhilip K. Dick,Eduardo G. Murillo(Translator)

1987 • 45 Readers • 651 pages • 3.6

Freedom's Laboratory

ByAudra J. Wolfe

2018 • 3 Readers • 312 pages

The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War

ByArchie Brown

2020 • 1 Reader

22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem-Conservative Coalition

ByDavid Laws

2010 • 1 Reader • 335 pages

#2 of 2 in Eilis Lacey

Long Island

ByColm Tóibín

2024 • 32 Readers • 303 pages • 3.8

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

ByAmanda Montell

2024 • 203 Readers • 272 pages • 3.3

Supercommunicators

ByCharles Duhigg

2024 • 200 Readers • 321 pages • 3.6

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

BySalman Rushdie

2024 • 105 Readers • 225 pages • 3.9

Verse, Chorus, Monster!

ByGraham Coxon

2022 • 5 Readers • 281 pages • 3.5

Christodora

ByTim Murphy

2016 • 14 Readers • 496 pages • 3.3

#8 of 6 in Skink

Squeeze Me: The ultimate crime fiction satire for the post-Trump era

ByCarl Hiaasen

2020 • 1 Reader • 352 pages

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

ByAnil Seth

7 Readers • 2.5

The Siege: Saga of Zionism and Israel

ByConor Cruise O'Brien

1986 • 1 Reader • 798 pages

Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

ByJohn Updike

2007 • 2 Readers

The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945 2010

ByPeter Hennessy

2002 • 1 Reader • 528 pages

Blood, Sweat & Chrome

ByKyle Buchanan

2022 • 34 Readers • 384 pages • 4.1

The Coast Road

ByAlan Murrin

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

ByGrace Blakeley

2024 • 21 Readers • 394 pages • 3.5

Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy

ByTim Weiner

With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

ByKathryn Mannix

2017 • 26 Readers • 342 pages • 4.3

How to Run A Government: So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy

ByMichael Barber

2015 • 3 Readers • 368 pages

Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History

ByLewis Dartnell

2019 • 1 Reader

Middlemarch

ByGeorge Eliot

1872 • 22 Readers • 816 pages • 4.6

Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich

ByHarald Jähner,Shaun Whiteside(Translator)

2019 • 13 Readers • 400 pages • 4.3

Nuclear War: A Scenario

ByAnnie Jacobsen

#1 of 2 in The Lover

The Lover

ByMarguerite Duras

1984 • 119 Readers • 123 pages • 3.7

Pyramid of Lies: The Prime Minister, the Banker and the Billion Pound Scandal

ByDuncan Mavin

2022 • 1 Reader

All That Remains: A Life in Death

BySue Black

2018 • 1 Reader • 334 pages

Legacy of Violence

Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

ByCaroline Elkins

2 Readers

The Holocaust: A New History

ByLaurence Rees

2017 • 3 Readers • 560 pages

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

ByDavid Grann

2009 • 243 Readers • 450 pages • 3.8

I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary

ByJ.M.R. Higgs

2009 • 1 Reader

Erasure

ByPercival Everett

2001 • 147 Readers • 320 pages • 4.4

The Home Scar

ByKathleen MacMahon

2023 • 2 Readers • 336 pages

The Story of England

ByMichael Wood

2010 • 8 Readers

Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber

Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale

BySean O'Driscoll

2022 • 1 Reader

The Theory of Everything Else

ByDan Schreiber

2022 • 9 Readers • 275 pages • 3.5

Causing Death and Saving Lives

Causing Death and Saving Lives: The Moral Problems of Abortion, Infanticide, Suicide, Euthanasia, Capital Punishment, War and Other Life-or-death Choices

ByJonathan Glover

1977 • 1 Reader

Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand

ByMarcus Chown

2018 • 2 Readers • 256 pages • 4

A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution

ByRaquel Varela

2014 • 1 Reader • 352 pages

Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation

ByTom Bissell

2012 • 1 Reader • 306 pages

Empire of Normality

ByRobert Chapman

2023 • 9 Readers • 4.5

Animal House

ByJames Brown

Last Night in Montreal

ByEmily St. John Mandel

2009 • 78 Readers • 256 pages • 3.9

As a Decade Fades

ByJoshua Fields Millburn

2012 • 2 Readers • 284 pages • 4

The Greek Myths

The Greek Myths Deluxe Edition

ByRobert Graves

1955 • 1 Reader • 832 pages

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

ByLester Bangs

1987 • 1 Reader

Magicians of the Gods: Evidence for an Ancient Apocalypse

ByGraham Hancock

2015 • 1 Reader

Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984

BySimon Reynolds

2005 • 2 Readers • 4

What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye

ByWill Gompertz

2012 • 1 Reader • 3

The Emptiness of Our Hands

The Emptiness of Our Hands: 47 Days on the Streets

ByPhyllis Cole-Dai,James Murray

2004 • 1 Reader

Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation

ByAlexei Yurchak

2005 • 18 Readers • 354 pages • 4

The Berlin Wall

ByFrederick Taylor

2006 • 3 Readers • 512 pages

Clinging to the Wreckage

ByJohn Mortimer

1982 • 1 Reader

William Blake Now

ByJohn Higgs

2019 • 96 pages

Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

ByA. Scott Berg

1978 • 8 Readers • 530 pages • 4

Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor: Music, Manchester, and More: A Memoir

ByDave Haslam

2018 • 3 Readers • 352 pages

The Terror

ByDan Simmons

2007 • 395 Readers • 659 pages • 4

Virginia Woolf in Richmond

ByPeter Fullagar,Virginia Woolf,+1 more

2018 • 1 Reader • 240 pages

Bringing It All Back Home

Bringing It All Back Home: Bob Dylan's second Big Bang

ByJochen Markhorst

1 Reader

The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

ByJeremy Bowen

2022 • 2 Readers • 351 pages

The Source

ByTara Swart

2019 • 3 Readers • 288 pages • 2

The Secret Hours

ByMick Herron

2023 • 45 Readers • 385 pages • 4.5

Penguin Modern Classics

Penguin Modern Classics: The Complete List including Why Read the Classics?

ByPenguin Classics,Italo Calvino

2011 • 1 Reader

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!: A Modern Pilgrimage Through Myth, Legend, Zen & Psychotherapy

BySheldon B. Kopp

1972 • 16 Readers • 238 pages • 3

Paused in Cosmic Reflection

ByThe Chemical Brothers

1 Reader

Brexit and the British: Who Are We Now?

ByStephen Green

2017 • 1 Reader • 60 pages

The End We Start From

ByMegan Hunter

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

BySusan Sontag

1964 • 11 Readers • 340 pages • 3

Capitalist Realism

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

ByMark Fisher

2009 • 5 Readers • 4.5

Stalin

Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator

ByOleg V. Khlevniuk,Nora Seligman Favorov(Translator)

2015 • 1 Reader

Shut Up, Alcohol!

Shut Up, Alcohol!: The self-support method to take charge of our drinking, today.

ByCarrie Carlisle

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

ByNaomi Klein

9 • 233 Readers • 333 pages • 4.4

Everybody: A Book about Freedom

ByOlivia Laing

2021 • 17 Readers • 311 pages • 5

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

ByWalt Bogdanich,Michael Forsythe

2022 • 10 Readers • 369 pages

The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell

ByAldous Huxley

1956 • 3 Readers • 100 pages • 4.5

The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within

ByAlan Watt

2010 • 4 Readers • 304 pages • 4

Parkland

ByVincent Bugliosi

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

ByTimothy Snyder

2018 • 66 Readers • 359 pages • 4.4

#1-3 of 3 in The Country Girls Trilogy

The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss

ByEdna O'Brien

1986 • 679 pages

Bettering Myself

ByOttessa Moshfegh

2013 • 2 Readers • 8 pages

The Age of Urban Democracy

#9 of 6 in A History of England

The Age of Urban Democracy: England 1868-1914

ByDonald Read

1979 • 1 Reader

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

ByJohn le Carré

2016 • 23 Readers • 320 pages • 4.3

An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

ByOliver Sacks

1964 • 86 Readers • 318 pages • 4.2

Paper Cuts

ByTed Kessler

2022

Poor

Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

ByKatriona O'Sullivan

1 Reader

The Opium War

ByBrian Inglis

1979 • 1 Reader

Descent Into Chaos: The World's Most Unstable Region and the Threat to Global Security

ByAhmed Rashid

2007 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

Imaginable

ByJane McGonigal

2022 • 25 Readers • 320 pages • 4.3

Out of Sheer Rage

ByGeoff Dyer

2015

New seeds of contemplation

ByThomas Merton

1962 • 23 Readers • 321 pages • 4.5

A People's Tragedy

A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924

ByOrlando Figes

1 Reader

The Hidden Spring

ByMark Solms

2021 • 19 Readers • 432 pages • 5

Most Delicious Poison

ByNoah Whiteman

2023 • 304 pages

A history of loneliness

ByJohn Boyne

2014 • 18 Readers • 384 pages • 3.5

Grace

ByPaul Lynch

2017 • 1 Reader • 368 pages

#1 of 3 in Danny Ryan

City on Fire

ByDon Winslow

2021 • 86 Readers • 400 pages • 3.7

The Power of Moments

The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact

ByChip Heath,Dan Heath

2017

#1 of 14 in Lord Peter Wimsey

Whose Body?

ByDorothy L. Sayers

1923 • 153 Readers • 228 pages • 3.5

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